U.S. drillers add oil rigs for 15th week, monthly pace slows -Baker Hughes
April 28, 2017 at 13:14 PM EDT
April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. drillers added oil rigs for a 15th week in a row, but the pace of those additions slowed in April to the lowest in five months as crude prices fell below $50 a barrel on doubts OPEC will continue to cut production enough to reduce the global glut. Drillers added nine oil rigs in the week to April 28, bringing the total count up to 697, the most since April 2015, energy services firm Baker Hughes Inc said on Friday. While that